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The headings like вЂњColour FilterвЂќ, вЂњSensitivityвЂќ etc refer to headings in the manual adjustments on the SEP2 interface on the far right of the screen.

It can be difficult to use the various sliders to exact values, but in most if not all cases you can click onto the slidersвЂ™ value box with you mouse and input the exact value straight into the box.

This is unclear? вЂ“ well looking at the small Tonality Protection part of SEP2вЂ™s manual adjustments panel (to the right of the image being processed) ought to clarify things. But SEP2вЂ™s interface also has two Tonality Protection sliders that lack numerical values, but which have the words вЂњ ShadowsвЂќ and вЂњ HighlightsвЂќ above the sliders вЂ“ where necessary, IвЂ™ll say which letter in these two words that the relevant slider is under.

Most of these presets will simply be percentages or (on a few cases) numbers or degrees.

IвЂ™ll list each presetвЂ™s SEP2 settings, which you can then replicate in SEP2 and save as your own custom preset (method given below) IвЂ™m only going to list non-default settings, leave all the rest of the settings at their defaults.

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Clicking onto these images will open larger versionsВ in separate windows вЂ“ especially for the gull! IвЂ™m adding black and white images to this post which have been produced with SEP2, but IвЂ™m not stating which preset was used for each image because (for me, at least) these presets are the starting points for images вЂ“ I find that I rarely use only the imageВ features that a preset gives but, instead, having selected the preset from theВ left of the SEP2 screen, I then substantially edit its effectsВ from the vast array of manual adjustments laid out in the panel on the right of the screen. And second, that they seem bent on preserving (and maybe developing) NikвЂ™s absolutely brilliant U Point technology which, to me, simply leaves LightroomвЂ™s Graduated and Radial FiltersВ behind вЂ“ far, far behind. First, that (as far as I know) DxOВ is a very solid and innovative company, with a growing reputation. Here is the link to look at if you want to keep abreast of any development of this wonderful software: DxO.

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But then, last year, the software company DxO acquired the plug-ins from Google вЂ“ and they have now said that they are going to update the plug-in suite in 2018. Then, still distributing the software gratis, Google announced that it would cease developing it вЂ“ and I for one started to worry that SEP2 was going to disappear вЂ“ IвЂ™m sure I was not alone in these thoughts. Google added to the plug-in set but, to me anyway, SEP2 and CEP4 have always stood head and shoulders above the rest.

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But then Nik ceased to exist and the set of plug-ins were acquired by Google вЂ“ who started off by charging for them, but then distributed them free of charge. Nik created a suite of plug-ins of which, to me at least, SEP2 is by far the most useful Color Efex Pro4 ( CEP4) is also very useful. SEP2вЂ™s HISTORY SEP2 was originally created by Nik Software, who were an offshoot of Nikon. But, before getting onto the nitty gritty, there are various things to mention. Putting these other presets onto my blog seems the best way to reach a wide audience, and the first batch of these presetsВ is below. This link is no longer working, and my blogging colleague Lynn at bluebrightlyhas asked if I can pass on these presetsвЂ™ details вЂ“ because I often use these other presets in the mono images posted on this blog. However, when Nik Software (the original creator of SEP2) was distributing it years ago,В they also gave a web link from which further presets could be downloaded. This software shipped with a set of image presets, which are extremely useful starting points for the creation of black and white pictures. I often enthusiastically extol the virtues of plug-in software called Silver Efex Pro 2 (SEP2), which I use for the production of nearly all of my black and white images.